Re: What is a stored procedure?

Posted in 1998

Bruce Fausey — Wed, 28 Oct 1998 11:03:31 -0600 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

a stored procedure is like building a module to do something specific in any language. it is simple to create a procedure and then just call it passing parameters. a good book is stored procedure programming by gonzales sold at borders or barnes&noble. I wrote in message <363730a1.1236249084@news.globalnet.co.uk>... >Hi, > >A lot of queries seem to crop up about stored procedures but I have no >idea what they are. >Can someone please provide a brief explantion as to what it is and how >useful they are? Also, how do you implement them and how should you >decide when to write one? > >TIA, > >Cheers, Ian.